SCARI,ET OAK. SPOTTED OAK. SPAXISH OAK. 



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In North Carolina, where it attains an average height of 50 to 

 70 feet, it is locally found from Lincoln county eastward to Person 

 county, growing on the rich, moist loams of river swamps or on 



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RfFFj Distribution of the TUPJvEY or FORK- 

 ^g LEAVED BLACK-JACK OAK 

 (Querciis catesbaei, Michx.) 



^VM Known distribution of the TEXAS RED 

 OAK (Quercus texana, j9«f;^) 



damp hillsides, associated with the yellow oak, swamp white oak, 

 red and willow oaks, and elms. (Fig. 23.) 



Throughont North Carolina it reproduces itself slowly, and 

 young seedlings are rarely found in the forest, although it flowers 

 regularlj' and matures fruit every two or three years. 



The small thin light green leaves, deeply lobed on the sides, 

 are smooth on botli surfaces, except for large tufts of brownish 

 hairs beneath in the axils of the primary veins. The leaf-stem is 

 nearly as long as the leaf. The oblong or cylindrous acorn is 

 borne in a shallow cup, which like the acorn, is generally smooth. 

 The long acute sharply angled winter-buds are smooth, as are 

 the steel-gray twigs. The strong lateral roots lie near the surface. 



The wood, heavier and stronger than that of the northern red 

 oak, is coarse-grained and porous, reddish-brown in color; the thick 

 sapwood light brown. It is superior in working qualities to that 

 of tiie northern red oak or any other of the American red and 

 l)lack oaks. In North Carolina, on account of the infrefiuent 

 occurrence of the tree, the wood is put to no specific uses. 



Quercus coccinea, Muenchhauseu. 



(scarlet C)AK. spotted OAK. SPANISH OAK. RED OAK). 



A slender tree, with a short trunk, smooth dark gray or black 



